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Call for Proposals: Interfacing public communications in the digital economy
by Michael Klontzas 02 Dec '18

02 Dec '18

Call for Papers Journal of Digital Media and Policy (JDMP) (Formerly International Journal of Digital Television) Special Issue 10.3 (Autumn 2019) ‘Interfacing public communications in the digital economy’ Guest edited by Michael Klontzas (University of Huddersfield) and Maria Sourbati (University of Brighton) Deadline for proposals: 30 November 2018 https://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/journals/view-journal,id=175/view,page=2/ Public organizations tasked with the delivery of universal service in communications (e.g. broadcasting) and social welfare (e.g. health services) have been redesigning their service delivery through digital transformation for almost two decades now. At the centre of these systems and infrastructures are digital interfaces enabling the flow of information and data between organizations and their publics, mediating access to services and generating data about service users. Originating in engineering to describe a face of separation between substances (Bottomley 1882) and, later, places or surfaces where two bodies or systems come together (OED 1990; McLuhan 1962), the concept of the ‘interface’ entered common use in new media studies at the turn of the century to denote mediations between human and computer, between computers or between humans. Interfaces are both technical devices and conceptual spaces. In digital communications, the word ‘interface’ denotes the software and hardware that conditions the interaction between computers and between computers and humans, as well as the interweaving of information and forging of connections that is directed through digital code. Interfaces have the power to shape communication and information access (Gane and Beer 2008) structure the choice of users and make normative claims about the purposes and appropriate use of content (Andersen and Pold 2014; Stanfill 2015). Service providers and content producers inscribe specific roles and types of agency into software interfaces (Lammes 2016) highlighting the affordances of websites (Graham and Henman 2018) and other human-facing technologies. Public service webpages, dashboards and social media feeds, demarcating appropriate modes of engagement, privilege certain content options, presuppose user competencies and deploy user characteristics shaping the production of user data that can be co-opted by powerful interests. Such power asymmetries have been the subject of ongoing policy debates about the crisis in public information (‘fake news’) and the necessity for regulatory intervention enforcing platform responsibility and supporting media literacy. Communications policy research has addressed today’s evolving digital media systems as platforms (e.g. Mansell 2015; van Dijck, Poell and Waal 2018) and as software and content (Burri 2015; Helberger, Karppinen and D'Acunto 2016), but less so as interactions and interrelationships of platform design, service software, content and structured media and information access. For this special issue, we invite contributions that examine interfaces on the institutional, organizational strategy, technology design and access level with a focus on universal/inclusive public communications and services. We invite contributions that include, but are not limited to, the following themes: * Digital interfaces and the structuring of user choice. * Public service ideals and evolving user interfaces: institutional strategies and alternative innovation. * Social inclusion by design. * Interfaces, aesthetics and configuring the public service user. * Digital interface affordances and public value. * Emerging interface technologies. * Digital interface design knowledge exchange and policy diffusion. * Interface regulation. Abstracts of 500 words should be submitted to the guest editors, Michael Klontzas M.Klontzas(a)hud.ac.uk<mailto:M.Klontzas@hud.ac.uk> and Maria Sourbati M.Sourbati(a)brighton.ac.uk<mailto:M.Sourbati@brighton.ac.uk>, by 30 November 2018. All proposals must include a title, six-eight keywords, author name(s), institutional affiliation(s) and contact details. To read more information about the journal and find Notes for Contributors, visit http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/journals/view-Journal,id=175 Key dates 30 November 2018: Deadline for abstract submission. 15 December 2018: Notification of accepted proposals. 29 April 2019: Deadline for submission of full articles. 27 May 2019: Double-blind peer-review completed. Accepted papers given four weeks for revision. Autumn 2019: Special issue goes to print. University of Huddersfield inspiring tomorrow's professionals. [http://marketing.hud.ac.uk/_HOSTED/EmailSig2014/EmailSigFooter.jpg] This transmission is confidential and may be legally privileged. If you receive it in error, please notify us immediately by e-mail and remove it from your system. If the content of this e-mail does not relate to the business of the University of Huddersfield, then we do not endorse it and will accept no liability.

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Photo of the original SPSS manual
by Rich Ling 02 Dec '18

02 Dec '18

Dear all, I am working on a presentation that includes a discussion of the effects of computational statistics. SPSS was an early element in this space. I am wondering if anyone has a copy of the original SPSS manual in their bookshelf and if they would be willing to send me a photo of it. Thanks in advance. -- Rich L.

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Apply Now! Speculative Fiction & AI Futures : Singapore, 15-16 December
by Amy Johnson 01 Dec '18

01 Dec '18

Please join us and help us circulate the call for this two-day workshop! (More below.) The event is part of Digital Asia Hub's AI in Asia series, and is intended not only for scholars in the region, but also for writers, technologists, and others in the region, too. Best, Amy We’re excited to host a speculative fiction writing workshop in Singapore, over the weekend of 15-16 December, 2018. The deadline for applications is 12pm (Singapore time) on 5th December, 2018. We welcome applications from a diversity of backgrounds, geographies, disciplines, and approaches to technology. You do not need to self-identity as a writer, academic or artist (or indeed any other limiting frame or role). We *are* expecting awesomeness, spirit and imagination! :-) More details [here: https://bit.ly/2BJjxPy<https://t.co/wCAY35SdX1>], which includes a link to the online application form. Apply now, and feel free to circulate to your networks in Asia. Best, Malavika (on behalf of the DAH team) Executive Director, Digital Asia Hub, Hong Kong www.digitalasiahub.org<http://www.digitalasiahub.org> Faculty Associate, Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University cyber.law.harvard.edu/people/mjayaram<http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/people/mjayaram> --- Amy Johnson, PhD Center for Humanistic Inquiry, Amherst College Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, Harvard University @shrapnelofme

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46th International Conference on Current Trends in Theory and Practice of Computer Science (SOFSEM 2020): Call for Track Proposals
by Announce Announcements 01 Dec '18

01 Dec '18

*** Call for Track Proposals *** 46th International Conference on Current Trends in Theory and Practice of Computer Science (SOFSEM 2020) Atlantica Miramare 4* Beach Hotel, Limassol, Cyprus January 20-24, 2020 http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=YWlyLUwJCQlhaXItTEBsaXN0c2Vydi… *** Submission Deadline: February 11, 2019 *** (Proceedings to be published by Springer) SOFSEM (SOFtware SEMinar) is an annual international winter conference devoted to the theory and practice of computer science. SOFSEM presents the latest results and developments in academic and industrial research in leading areas of Computer Science. The first SOFSEM was organized in 1974, and it was traditionally located in the Czech and Slovak Republics, before it starting moving to other European locations. In 2017 it was organised in Ireland, in 2018 in Austria and in 2019 in Slovakia. The 46th edition will be organised in the sunny Mediterranean island of Cyprus. SOFSEM consists of Invited Talks by prominent researchers, Contributed Talks selected from the submitted papers, and the Student Research Forum. The program is organized in plenary talks and parallel tracks devoted to original research in contemporary areas of Computer Science. SOFSEM has a long-standing tradition of facilitating discussions and collegial interactions and is well-known for its familiar and inspiring atmosphere and as a meeting place for active and leading computer scientists. SOFSEM is a track based conference. It features the traditional track on Foundations of Computer Science and a number of other tracks that over the years have evolved to cover and address contemporary important areas of Computer Science, such as Artificial Intelligence, Cryptography, Security, and Verification, Data Science, Knowledge Engineering, Social Computing and Human Factors, Software and Web Engineering, etc. The proceedings of SOFSEM are published in the prestigious ARCoSS (Advanced Research in Computing and Software Science) subseries of Springer's Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series. For SOFSEM 2020, the Steering Committee is inviting proposals for organising tracks. The tracks can be of theoretical or practical nature or a combination of both. Tracks from industry are particularly welcome. The proposal should not exceed 3 pages and should include the following items: a) Title, aim and scope of the proposed track, as well as the list of topics that the proposed track will address. b) Rationale for having this track in SOFSEM, including any other similar events that the proposed track complements or differs from. c) Names, affiliations and short CVs for the chairs of the proposed track, demonstrating past relevant experience in organising such tracks or events. d) Tentative list of names of the Program Committee for the proposed track. e) A short dissemination plan for the CFP mentioning the forums where the latter will be posted. The proposals will be reviewed by the Steering Committee and the General Chairs, based on the above mentioned criteria. A proposal may be accepted as is, requested to modify its title and/or topics covered, merged with another proposed track or rejected. Upon acceptance, the track chairs will be notified of their exact duties in managing the affairs of their track. The Steering Committee reserves the right to cancel a track at any moment in time, if these responsibilities are not dealt with satisfactorily by the track chairs. Proposals should be submitted by February 11th, 2019 to the SOFSEM 2020 General Chairs, Yannis Manolopoulos (yannis.manolopoulos AT ouc.ac.cy) and George A. Papadopoulos (george AT cs.ucy.ac.cy). IMPORTANT DATES * Submission of track proposals: February 11, 2019 * Notification of proposals acceptance or rejection: February 25, 2019 * Submission of abstracts: July 29, 2019 * Submission of full papers: August 5, 2019 * Notification of acceptance for submitted papers: September 30, 2019 * Camera-Ready submission of accepted papers: October 28, 2019 * Early and author registration deadline: November 25, 2019 * Conference dates: January 20-24, 2020 ORGANISATION General Chairs Yannis Manolopoulos, Open University of Cyprus, CY George A, Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, CY Steering Committee Barbara Catania, University of Genova, IT Miroslaw Kutylowski, Wroclaw Uni. of Technology, PL Tiziana Margaria-Steffen, University of Limerick, IE Branislav Rovan, Comenius University, Bratislava, SK Petr Saloun, Technical University of Ostrava, CZ Julius Stuller, Academy of Sciences, Prague, CZ, chair Jan van Leeuwen, Utrecht University, Utrecht, NL

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Call for Papers / Submission system now open: "DATA POWER: global in/securities" international conference
by Leif Kramp 01 Dec '18

01 Dec '18

Call for Papers / Submission system now open for: DATA POWER: global in/securities A two-day, international conference Date: Thursday 12th and Friday 13th September 2019 Venue: University of Bremen, Germany Deadline for submissions: 31st January 2019 With increasingly globalized digital infrastructures and a global digital political economy, we face new concentrations of power, leading to new inequalities and insecurities with respect to data ownership, data geographies and different data-related practices. It is not only a concentration of power by a few corporations, but also a concentration of the availability of data in individual regions of the world. This includes (exerting) power about data (infra)structures and processes of data creation, data collection, data access, data processing, data interpretation, data storing, data visualisations. The Global in/securities theme of the 2019 Data Power conference attends to questions around these phenomena, asking: How does data power further or contest global in/securities? How are global in/securities constructed through or against data? How do civil society actors, government, people engage with societal and individual in/securities through and with data? What are appropriate ontologies to think about data and persons? How may we envisage a just data society? And what does decolonizing data in/securities look like? This conference creates a space to reflect on these and other critical issues relating to data’s in/security and its decolonizing. Confirmed keynote speakers are: • Virginia Eubanks, University at Albany, USA; • Jack Linchuan Qiu, Chinese University Hongkong; • Seeta Peña Gangadaran, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK; • Nimmi Rangaswamy, Indian Institute of Information Technology, IIIT, Hyderabad, India. Papers and panels are invited on the following – and other relevant – topics: • Big data and humanitarianism • Big/open data, corruption and public debt • ‘Good’ data, data justice and well-being • Critical, theoretical and feminist approaches to data in/securities • Data activism, citizen engagement, indigenous data sovereignty and open data • Data journalism and rhetorics of data visualization in a global perspective • Data-driven governance and open data • Securitization and militarization of data infrastructures • Data, discrimination and inequality • Emerging in/securities through algorithms and automated decision-making • Forensic data, human rights and refugees • Decolonizing data in/securities and data labor • Machine learning, developmentalism and human security Information/details • Please submit 250-word-paper proposals, using the online submission system at https://portal.smart-abstract.com/data-power • The deadline for paper proposals is 31st January 2019. • The conference fee is 200 Euro, and 100 Euro for students. There will be travel grants for participants from the global south and PhD student fee waivers (please indicate the need when applying) • The organising committee will select papers for a special theme proposal to be submitted to the peer reviewed journals Big Data & Society and International Communication Gazette. • For information on travel visa, please visit the following web page: https://ec.europa.eu/home-affairs/what-we-do/policies/borders-and-visas/vis… Letters of invitation will be sent by the conference organizers. https://www.uni-bremen.de/data-power-global-insecurities/call-for-papers-re…

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